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DevOps Technical Principal Engineer

About Liatrio
Liatrio is a boutique consulting firm that helps enterprises deliver software faster, safer and more efficiently. Our work is dual mode: engineering delivery and people enablement. We lead DevOps transformations in many different industries, anywhere from financial institutions to healthcare providers to the department of defense.

What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone with experience as a technical principal, engineering manager, practice lead or lead engineer who is passionate about both best practices in modern engineering and enabling clients through transferring knowledge, coaching, training and upskilling.

The technical principal is accountable for delivery excellence for our clients, building and maintaining solid client relationships as a trusted strategic advisor and overall engagement success. Internally, this role will foster positive team morale, provide individual feedback and drive the staffing needs of an engagement. This may have 4-8 team members reporting to them, from Associate Engineer to Tech Lead.

Industry titles that usually correspond to our work:
Engineering Manager, Engineering Practice Lead, Lead Engineer

Who You Are
Liatrio lives and breathes the following traits; people on our team tend to have a combination of the following qualities:
- Willingness and hunger to learn
- Devotion to open communication and transparency
- Value collaboration and willingness to share responsibilities across internal and client work 
- Effectively communicate in difficult conversations
- Desire to solve complex problems - interpersonal, technical, and business
- Ability to acknowledge shortcomings and provide solutions
- Empathy towards others
- Appreciate mentoring and helping others grow
- Navigate ambiguity and frequent change

What You Do
This is a player-coach role. You’re happy both hands-on-keyboard solving a technical problem and guiding others to do the same.

We each bring varying degrees of knowledge to the table. You will have experience in several of these areas but not necessarily all of them. This is not a comprehensive list; there may be other equally valuable skills and experience you bring that are not listed here.

Delivery Excellence

    • Deliver with excellence - Execution of contractual obligations to deliverables, documentation and providing an excellent customer experience 
    • Delivery strategy - Working closely with leadership, Liatrio team members and the client, contribute to and evolve the overall strategy for the DevOps technical engagement 
    • Trusted advisor - Guide clients on technical and methodological best practices, provide strategic influence, share industry insight, advocate for DevOps cultural and be a transformational consultant (remove political, financial, mental, social impediments)
    • Client relationship - Build, grow and maintain Liatrio relationships with the key customer stakeholders 
    • Technical contribution - Architect solutions and solve complex engineering challenges in the engagement, as well as pair with both Liatrio team members and customer team members
    • Customer feedback - Maintain weekly and monthly updates, executive summaries, conduct regular surveys and gather feedback, measure outcomes, stakeholder check-ins 
    • Oversight and accountability - Maintain resource forecast and actual, invoice accuracy and timely submission

Team Development

    • Team morale and alignment - Accountable for overall morale and well-being of the Liatrio team engaged on the client
    • Direct reports - 4-8 team members of varying experience levels, coaching/mentoring with weekly 1:1s, real time feedback, support career development, and formal feedback monthly & bi-annually 
    • Team accountability - Ensure accurate time tracking, alignment with contractual obligations, assist team members at first signs of struggle and balance delivery hours with internal projects 
    • Staffing needs & demands - Identifies and maps capabilities of the team to client needs, advise leadership and PeopleOps on hiring, onboarding and rotation to prevent burnout

Liatrio Growth

    • Customer growth & expansion - Support delivery principle & sales team’s work in providing an excellent customer experience, identifying opportunities for expansion, promoting Liatrio and validating SOWs
    • Liatrio IP development - Leveraging our industry insights to create accelerators that will be valuable to future engagements, support our internal efforts and grow the community

Tools and Technologies

    • As a hands-on client and team leader, we expect you’ll have significant experience with most of the tools and technologies we frequently use with our clients. While we know it's impossible to be an expert on all the tools available, for this technical principle position we expect you'll be able to perform advanced tasks in all of the below areas independently, as well as be able to train or upskill client and colleague engineers. 
    • Build systems, using technologies like Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab
    • Infrastructure as Code, like Terraform or Cloud Formation
    • Cloud native technologies, such as Kubernetes and Istio
    • Cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud
    • Observability, through tools such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, DataDog or Zipkin
    • Modern source control management systems and branching strategies
    • Application Development, comfortable reviewing code and empathizing with developers across the SDLC

Specifics

    • Full benefits including unlimited PTO, funded HSA option, 401k match, monthly LiveWell stipend, and quarterly company bonus
    • Annual base salary: $170,000- $200,000 , depending on experience

Requirements

    • Employment eligibility: must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without the need for sponsorship.
    • Travel availability: we divide our time between working remotely and visiting our client sites located throughout the U.S. Travel typically ranges from 4-6 times a year to a few times per month.
Liatrio is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and strive to create a culture of inclusion. We do not discriminate, nor do we tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

We want our process to be accessible for everyone. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact hello@liatrio.com.
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Liatrio

Category

Education

Employment type

Full-Time

Location

Remote

Salary range

$170,000 - $200,000

Posted

13 hours ago

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